Hi Brett, ok, but BTW: How can one do this, i. e. determine the browser version with GWT?
Magnus On Jul 22, 8:03 pm, Brett Thomas <brettptho...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it looks classy to display a note for IE6 users that says something > along the lines of "unfortunately our website no longer supports IE6, click > here to learn how to upgrade" > > I think plenty of people have no idea what browser version they are using. > They may know the difference between IE and Firefox, but not what version > number it is. If a site doesn't work, they'll just say "must be because my > computer is old" and forget about it. So, tell them what they can do to fix > it... > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM, charlie <charlie.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Agreed. It's been the bane of web developers existence for far too long. > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Christian Goudreau < > > goudreau.christ...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Let's drop IE6 and IE7 support, I think it's time anyway for that. > > >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Isaac Truett <itru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> GWT doesn't promise to make your application look the same on all > >>> browsers. It does try its very best to make sure that the JS it produces > >>> functions the same across browsers, and doesn't leave any nasty side > >>> effects, leak memory, or anything like that. > > >>> There may be some cases where GWT will leverage CSS "tricks" on each > >>> browser to achieve a result (although I can't think of any such cases off > >>> the top of my head), but that doesn't mean that GWT will take steps to > >>> ensure that all of your CSS is magically transformed into something that > >>> works on any browser. For one thing, that's out of scope, and for another > >>> it > >>> isn't possible. Some things in CSS just aren't supported, especially in > >>> older browsers. > > >>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Magnus > >>> <alpineblas...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > >>>> Hi, > > >>>> sorry for repeating: > > >>>> I thought that the promise of GWT was that one never ever has to deal > >>>> with such problems anymore? > > >>>> Why are we discussing about wether to spent time in supporting IE6 > >>>> while the GWT compiler should do this? > > >>>> Magnus > > >>>> -- > >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>> Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. > >>>> To post to this group, send email to > >>>> google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >>>> . > >>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>>http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >>> "Google Web Toolkit" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com > >>> . > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >>> . > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > >> -- > >> Christian Goudreau > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Google Web Toolkit" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > -- > > <charlie/> > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
